Wade Taylor
Obelisk | 2024 | oil on wood | 54 x 79cm
Sunshine Coast National Art Prize 2025 - Finalist
Image courtesy of the artist and Stala Contemporary, Perth
Wade Taylor
WA
Obelisk, 2024
Oil on wood
54 x 79cm
Suburbs and industry expand towards three horizons. Seeking out, stretching through, infilling this coastal plain. Indistinct concrete structures appear as if overnight in freshly levelled zones once bush and dune. An ode to industry and obsession, this anonymous and monolithic architecture has a sombre religiosity. Obelisk questions how we move through our landscape, how we inhabit and transform space. It speaks to our needs and desires, of a strange and relentless form of worship and of a tentative future.